Why we are excited about the OpenSSL Conference

Early bird registration for the first OpenSSL Conference is available until August 31. Now is the best time to register.

With over 90 talks, there’s something for everyone at the OpenSSL Conference in Prague from October 7–9. The OpenSSL Foundation will be presenting two talks:

• Matt Caswell, President of the Foundation, will speak on the Foundation’s mission and what we are doing to deliver on it.
• Jon Ericson, the Foundation’s Communities Manager, plans to discuss the state of the OpenSSL community.

Many other talks caught our interest too:

• Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records on an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog
• Oh! Won’t Someone Think of the Identification Infrastructure!
• Car security with OpenSSL providers
• Why Quantum Cryptanalysis is Bollocks
• Terms of GitHub: What You Ship Might Sue You
• Post-Quantum Trails: an educational boardgame about migration to PQC
• From Bug to Breach: Legal Lessons in Cryptographic Failures
• The Garden of Forking Paths: OpenSSL edition
• The Road from Academic Research to OpenSSL Contributions
• Attacking and Defending Active Directory with OpenSSL: TLS, Certs, and Smartcard Chaos
• Side-channel leakage verification using statistical approach
• Should Governments Pay for Open Source Maintenance? A European Answer
• Mission Impossible: Common Cryptography at Scale in a Diverse Enterprise
• The Python Cryptographic Authority’s OpenSSL Experience
• Tao of Open Source Cryptography in China
• Legal and commercial pitfalls of poor open source management
• We Are Standing With the Polar Bears
• How is the European Commission planning to break cryptography this time?
• Symmetric keys: beyond the raw bytes
• Helping Calm the Panic About PQC: Join an Open Source Project
• How I Met Your Algorithm: A Post-Quantum Love Story
• Fast, constant-time, correct: pick three
• Making OpenSSL Approachable: Interactive Labs, Automation, and AI Insights

This is only a fraction of the talks, so the difficulty won’t be finding interesting sessions, but choosing among the four parallel tracks at each particular time.

Everyone at the Foundation will be in Prague and we’re looking forward to meeting you there.

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